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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: PC Editors
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Date: 15 Feb 91 12:11:58 GMT
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Todd Moody writes:
>(1) Unlimited file size.

BRIEF v3.0 can handle up to 2^31 lines in a file (does that qualify as
"unlimited"? :-)

>(2) Multiple files and windows.

BRIEF has it.  Windows can be as much as screen size permits and can
be tiled arbitrarily.

>(3) Macro/extension language.

BRIEF supports TWO macro languages.  One LISP like, and one C like.
The LISP like version uses C command abbreviations.  The C like version
is a virtually complete *superset* of C.  (of course all the C constructs
are supported (if,else,while,etc...)

>(4) Regular expression search and replace.

BRIEF has it.

>(5) Full undelete.
>(6) Full undo.

In BRIEF you can undo/undelete EVERYTHING you can think of (limited by
memory size only).

>(7) Keystroke flexibility.

You can redefine all keys or arbitry long key sequences in BRIEF.

>(8) Flexible region marking.

BRIEF supports normal blocks, line blocks, and *column* blocks.

>Obviously, there are plenty of other "routine" editor functions that
>need to be there, but I know of no single editor that supports all of
>the above eight.

Now you know at least one editor that supports all of the above eight.

I myself use CRISP, a UNIX implementation of BRIEF, which is available
in source code.  Though I don't know if it can be ported to MSDOS readily.
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."